After GameX Report, sort of…

Yes the con ended two days ago and I am now posting news, I am a bad, bad man I know…

Well as I said in the comment on my last post I didn’t play any of the games I listed I wanted to play Everything sort got crazy and wanted to make sure everyone else was having a good con so I only got to play 6 games the entire time I was at the convention.

However I had some great games, first of Jay Tummelson the owner of Rio Grande Games introduced me to:

Thurn & Taxis: for Power & Glory which was fun, I admit I am not very good at linking sets games but I still had a good time. You build post office routes in Germany using cards to build sets that you then have to make sure you have enough horse cards to put down and complete a route. The longer the route the more points you score, there is also scoring for different colors areas, and something else I cannot remember now. I didn’t do very well but as I said it was fun.

While manning the board game HQ I got to squeeze in a game of:

Always a great game, we played scenario 4 as the Americans, who are trying to pry a German unit out a large rectangular building on the far side of the map. I know what any attack / defend scenarios usually tip in the defenders favor so I knew it would be tough. I had a few things going for me however, I was the only with artillery which ended up softening up the German defenses more than once, and bad card draws on the German players part (sorry Patrick). I decided to try to roll up the left flank on a road that had a wall and hedge between me and the Germans to try to distract him. I then had another unit try to rush head long into the building using the hedges as cover as they moved. I kinda worked but it really came down to some good card draws I my part and bad ones on the Germans part, which is honestly what the game is all about.

On the last day I got to play 2 games of:

Which I got throughly trounced in (good job by the way Mark). I played both games as the Soviets and the first game lost on turn 4, all of my card draws for this game we the worst I have ever seen (guess I need to play more games of this to change that). Over half my hand on any given turn was American 1 Operation cards and my opponent kept playing Red Scare / Purge on me to boot. The second game we played all the way to the last turn, I still made a lot of mistakes but Mark was very gracious and kept giving me tips which helped a lot. I almost won the game on turn 3 I was at 18 points as the Soviets and tried to play ABM Treaty to get the last 2 points to win but by then I was loosing ground and the US easily won the dice roll after that the momentum swung way over to the US favor and I could never get it back.

Now you may be asking yourself, “Hey! that is only 4 games!” The other 2 with role-playing games which I want to put in a separate post which I am going to start on shorty, so don’t panic.

All in all it was a great con, we have another coming up in a short 3 months Gateway (August 31st through September 3rd 2007). So you have another chance to join the fun if you missed this one.

TTFN.